I do think cell phones have no place in the classroom. They are a distraction to all. The students should be focused on the class, not their phone. Plus they provide easy access to cheating. I think it should be at the discretion of the professor/instructor/teacher. If a student has an on-going personal emergency and needs to be immediately accessible to family members, he should discuss it with the teacher before the class starts and ask for permission to keep his phone turned on. The teacher could ask him to step outside the classroom if communication is necessary. The teacher could also use a points-off system for cell phone use during class time, since a student who is in communication with someone outside the class is not mentally "in attendance" during that time he is on the phone.
2007-08-07 00:49:00
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answered by leslie b 7
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Well here's my view of it. I don't really think that cell phone's should be banned from a classroom. I think that students should be allowed in an educational environment with them and here is an example why.
On September 11, 2001, I was a freshman in high school. I had your normal schedule...Math, science, chorus, history, lunch, english, p.e., and italian. Now we all know what happened that day. So I had just gotten into my english class when I was told that my mother had come to pick me up. I didn't know why at the time. As soon as I left the class, other student's parents were coming to pick them as well. Of course, I didn't have a cell phone at the time. But in situations like that, I think that students should be allowed with a cell phone just so that their parent's know that they are safe and nothing is wrong. Just put the phone on vibrate when you are in class, don't text message or use it as a calculator and there should be no problem. If you get a call, just ask to use the bathroom pass and go in the stll and talk so you don't get caught in the halls.
2007-08-07 02:13:51
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answered by thats what you get <3 3
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Indeed, cell phone usage (audio or text) should be banned in class!
Use by any class participant -- student or lecturer -- is to introduce an un-necessary and irrelevant distraction to the learning focus of the phone-user AND all other class members.
Why combine two pursuits poorly, rather than do each task separately well?
Additionally, in this context, phone usage represents a brazenly rude physical demonstration that the phone is of rather more importance to the user than their class.
By NOT making or taking calls at inappropriate times teaches all parties to respect and value others access times. It also discourages arrogant expectations of instant contact-ability.
Only one situation warrants instant response: notification that the long awaited life-saving organ donation is available NOW. Even then, one should remove oneself from class to take the call.
All other news good and bad --from lottery wins to war declarations or evictions -- will not be changed for a two hour wait.
2007-08-07 01:33:31
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answered by malancam55 5
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as a student, i would say that handphones (hereafter they shall be referred to as hps) should not be allowed in classrooms. this does not mean that the physical hp should not be carried into a class, merely that all hps should be turned off in a classroom, except in extreme circumstances (such as one where a family member is seriously ill, or something at that degree).
firstly, having hps turned on during a class just disrupt the attention of not only the student who owns the hp but also other students. no matter what anyone says, having a ring tone interrupt your lecturer in the middle of a lecture constitutes disruption. for students who genuinely want to listen to what is being said, this is very annoying.
some students take it further than that. they read jokes or funny smses during class and laugh out loud. again, people who care about their studies find this very disturbing, and it is actually very unfair towards them. he class is a a place for learning and if these students do not want to learn, they should at least have the decency not to deprive others of those rights.
2007-08-07 01:03:23
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answered by silivren 3
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2016-11-11 10:54:17
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answered by costoso 4
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they shouldnt be banned, i mean if there was some sort of emergency you would have to take the call. and yes it has its disadvantage by the student texting but thats his/her choice. me when im in class if i get a phone call ill just peak to see who it is, if its my mother i always step out to talk because she knows im in class and might be important. text messages, i check them anyway just incase its important. so yeah as long as its not disruptful then it should be allowed.
2007-08-07 00:47:51
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answered by Anonymous
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